How to fix the Oracle error ORA-16170: Terminal recovery may have left the database in an inconsistent state?

In this post, you’ll learn more about the Oracle ErrorORA-16170: Terminal recovery may have left the database in an inconsistent state with the details on why you receive this error and the possible solution to fix it.

Oracle Error Description

ORA-16170: Terminal recovery may have left the database in an inconsistent state

Reason for the Error ORA-16170: Terminal recovery may have left the database in an inconsistent state

When terminal recovery is invoked in a standby database without synchronous log shipping, in the rare case of the recovery session being in an unrecoverable state, terminal recovery cannot bring the standby database to a consistent SCN boundary if the primary database continues to have redo thread(s) open.

How to fix the Error ORA-16170: Terminal recovery may have left the database in an inconsistent state ?

You can fix this error in Oracle by following the below steps

Continue standby recovery with additional log shipping from primary.